Building stone, lathing, plastering, and tiling, common brickwork, ornamental brickwork and terra cotta : lighting fixtures, use and design of lighting fixtures, architectural design (1909)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton : International Textbook Co. · leaf 143
motionhas a tendency to distribute the mortar along the wall. Themortar is then still further spread with the point of thetrowel, which, by a vibrating movement of the hand, causesthe mortar to form in little ridges. A brick is then placedon the wall and shoved into place, as shown in Fig. 2. This… … Fig. 1 trowel, and all the excess of mortar thus squeezed out at thejoint is then removed with the trowel, as shown in Fig. 3,by scraping it along in the direction indicated by the arrow.This extra mortar, which sticks to the trowel, is then scraped
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